Current Affairs Ferdinand Peroutka: Journalist of Czech Democracy
Twenty-five years ago, on Sunday April 20, Czech journalist and creative writer Ferdinand Peroutka, affectionately called "Mr. Czechoslovakia" in America, died in exile in New York. A fierce fighter for democratic values in Czechoslovak society, Peroutka didn't let the Nazis or Communists tell him what to think or what to write, and he did pay dearly for not succumbing to political pressures. I spoke with journalist and political commentator Vaclav Zak, who believes that journalists today have something to learn from Peroutka.
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